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Bloomsbury Summer School
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Fascinated by ancient civilisations?
We offer anyone with any level of knowledge, inspiring short courses on ancient Egypt and other areas of the ancient world.
2024 Course timetable (in-person and online)
Monday 22 to Friday 26 July
ARCHAEOLOGY OF EMPIRE: EGYPT IN THE NEW KINGDOM
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Course Director: Dr Robert Morkot (Friends of the Petrie Museum)
Monday 22 July
10:45 – 11:00*
Students login to Google Meet
11:00 – 11:30
BSS Director’s Welcome Address
11:30 – 13:00
1. Introduction: Empires and how we understand them
Welcome Lunch in BSS Common Room (14:00 Short optional tour of UCL with the Director)**
14:30 – 15:45
2. The Late Bronze Age World
16:15 – 17:30
3. The New Kingdom: Overview
17:30
Non-BSS event: Get together with fellow students for a drink in the Woolf and Whistle Bar on the ground floor of the Tavistock Hotel**
Tuesday 23 July
10:00 – 11:15
4. Historical Sources and Interpretation
11:45 – 13:00
5. Reunification of Egypt
14:15 – 15:30
6. Expansion 1: Thutmose I
16:00 – 17:15
7. Expansion 2: Thutmose III
17:15 – 18:30
BSS Social on Common Room balcony**
Wednesday 24 July
10:00 – 11:15
8. Maintaining Empire: Amenhotep II–Akhenaten
11:45 – 13:00
9. New Empires, New threats: Akhenaten–Ramesses II
14:15 – 15:30
10. Ruling Empire: Kush
16:00 – 17:15
11. Ruling Empire: Western Asia
17:30
Non-BSS event: Get together with fellow students for dinner at Poppadom Indian Kitchen in the Tavistock Hotel**
Thursday 25 July
10:00 – 11:15
12. Empire in Action: Trade and the economy
11:45 – 13:00
13. Egyptian Religion at the Centre and Periphery
14:15 – 15:30
14. Culture I: Influences on Egypt
16:00 – 17:15
15. Culture II: Egyptian influence in the em
Friday 26 July
10:00 – 11:15
16. Artifact Handling Session (details TBC)
11:45 – 13:00
17. Artifact Handling Session (details TBC)
14:15 – 15:45
18. The ‘End’ of the Late Bronze Age
16:00 – 17:15
19. The ‘End’ of the New Kingdom
17:15 – 18:30
End-of-Course Drinks and Online Social (you are welcome to invite guests)
*All times are London UK time; Google Meet waiting room opens 15 minutes prior to the start; **In-person participants only.
NB: Timetables, once published, are unlikely to change, but remain provisional until the first day of the course.